Upon the announcement of a software failure, public companies lost an average of $2.3 billion of shareholder value in 2013-2014 (a -3.75% loss of market capitalization). So far in 2015, this has increased to $4.06 billion-a -4.12% loss of market capitalization every time that news of faulty software hits the wire. (Parasoft study)

35% of testers report that they spend more than half of their week not testing. 46% want to spend significant time creating automated tests, but 64% currently spend little to no time on it. (Software Quality Engineering survey)

Developers and testers require access to an average of 52 dependencies, but 67% have unrestricted access to only 10 or fewer of the required dependencies. (voke Service Virtualization report)

36% of developers/testers wait a week or more for access to dev/test environments. After waiting, it takes them an average of 14 days to get a development environment configured (or 12 days to get a QA/test environment configured). (voke Virtual and Cloud Based Labs report)

Over one-third of developers don't think their companies perform enough pre-release testing. 56% estimated that their last significant software bug resulted in an average of $250,000 in lost revenue. (Electric Cloud survey)

Cynthia Dunlop, Lead Content Strategist/Writer at Tricentis, writes about software testing and the SDLC—specializing in continuous testing, functional/API testing, DevOps, Agile, and service virtualization. She has written articles for publications including SD Times, Stickyminds, InfoQ, ComputerWorld, IEEE Computer, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. She also co-authored and ghostwritten several books on software development and testing for Wiley and Wiley-IEEE Press. Dunlop holds a BA from UCLA and an MA from Washington State University.

SOA is "Service-Oriented Architecture" and WOA, a more recent concept, is "Web-Oriented Architecture." Through WOA, EA & Governance practices are being used these days to ensure business alignment, proper sharing and quality while also using lightweight protocols to drive barrier-free consumption and composition.

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